Python Job Trends in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +21
Permanent jobs citing Python 29 42 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 3.23% 4.55% 7.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.32% 16.22% 19.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 34
10th Percentile £39,375 - £35,612
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £65,033
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -19.27% +18.24%
75th Percentile £62,844 £73,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 136 259 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.16% 28.06% 36.75%
Number of salaries quoted 100 150 132
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £32,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.08% +0.08%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Python
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 15 £60,000 - 10
Warrington +8 6 £42,500 -44.81% 12
Crewe -7 3 £58,750 +17.50% 8
Chester -12 2 £52,500 -34.38% 5
Macclesfield - 1 £50,000 - 8
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) SAS
2 3 (10.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) CANalyzer
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Loan IQ
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.45%) Datadog
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) DHCP
2 2 (6.90%) HTTP
2 2 (6.90%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) GIS
3 1 (3.45%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.45%) Power Query
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
3 1 (3.45%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) GitLab
1 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) ER Studio
4 2 (6.90%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (3.45%) CANoe
5 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Banking
3 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Games
5 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.90%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Automotive
7 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Data Modeller
2 3 (10.34%) Data Scientist
2 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Finance Modeller
2 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Games Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Graduate
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Games Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) DPDK
1 3 (10.34%) eBPF
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.90%) Keras
2 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.45%) Django
3 1 (3.45%) Flash
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) Node.js
3 1 (3.45%) NumPy
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) Regular Expression
3 1 (3.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.45%) Blog
4 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.45%) NVMe
4 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
3 9 (31.03%) Analytics
3 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (27.59%) DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
5 7 (24.14%) AI
5 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (20.69%) Data Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Data Protection
6 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
7 5 (17.24%) Data Science
7 5 (17.24%) Statistical Analysis
7 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
8 4 (13.79%) Agile
8 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Open Source
8 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 4 (13.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) R
3 5 (17.24%) Bash
4 4 (13.79%) Java
5 3 (10.34%) C++
6 2 (6.90%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.90%) VBA
7 1 (3.45%) Bicep
7 1 (3.45%) C
7 1 (3.45%) Go
7 1 (3.45%) Julia
7 1 (3.45%) PHP
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.45%) HNC
2 1 (3.45%) HND
2 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) KVM
2 3 (10.34%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Grafana
3 5 (17.24%) Terraform
4 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) SaltStack
3 1 (3.45%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Pega
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) TOWER Software